Tire.



J. P; SGHMAND.

TIRE.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 19, 1910.

Patented May 16, 1911.

.rosErH :PHILLIP soHiviAND, or EosELLE PARK. NEW JEEsEY.

TIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented lVIay 16, `1911- ,Application filed October 19, 1910. Serial No. 587,878.

To all whom "it 'may concern: l

Be it known that I, JOSEPH PHILIIP SCHMAND, a citizen 'of the United States, i'esiding at Roselle Park, in the county of Union and State of'New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tires; and I do hereby declare the? following to be a full, clear, and exact degive trouble by being punctured, thus caus- .ing delay, annoyance and 'many other inconveniences.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved wheel tire thatv will prevent' such possibility of puncturing; my 4tire bejiiig ofsubstantially the same construction armor being thoroughly flexible and adapting itself to and receiving shocks incurred on the road in the same manner as the rubber structure which incloses it, so that the ordinary resiliency possessed by the rubber structure is not aifected.

The improvements provided herein are also simple, of inexpensive construction and result in a wheel tire that entails all the advantages of the ordinary pneumatic tire without however possessing its disadvantage of being punctured.

My invention consists of the parts and combinations hereinafter 'fully described and claimed.

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figurel is a transverse section of an assembled wheel tire constructed with my improvements and Fig. 2 is a modification of the same, showing my improvements as adapted to a wheel tire of ordinary construction. Fig. 3 is a detail .of said adapted improvement, and Fig. 4 is a detail in 'perspective of one-,of the links constituting the structure of the armor..

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 4:, but

showing two such links as fitting endwise.

Fig. 6 is a view in a.y reduced scale showing themanner of assembling the links in constructing the armor, and Fig. 7 `is a detail in perspective of the last link as shown in section in Figal.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts in the different views of the drawings.

The layer of armor used in this wheel tiie is constructed entirely" of the link plates 1, Fig. 4. Said links are preferably punched out of steel plates and are joined sidewise by being hinged together. The sides 2 of the links are hook-shaped longitudinally and the links are joined by placing the. end 3 of one against the end 4 yof another link and passing one hook within another longitudinally to hinge the tivo as shown at 5 in Figs.

l, 2, and 8. Several llinks are thushinged together to go around the tire transversely as shown in section in Fig. 3 and constitute a chain which forms one series, as shown at G, Fig. 6'; said chain series being placed end to lend to make up the entire ring of armor to go around the tire. Each series of links yis joined -to the other bythe projections 7 'of the link plates 4 passing through the punched holes 8 Vof the links in thev next series and the projections 9 pressing down on the adjoining vlinks while the projections 7 press upward on their adjoining links asshown in Fig. 5. In this manner, each lseries is joined to the next until the entire ring is completed to fill the tire as will be shown later.

It will be noted that the link plates are convex to conform to the' convexity of the transverse and circumferential section of the tire and that the ends 12 and 13 of the links are tapered radially ,toward thecenter of the Wheel; in other ivoi'ds each link in the series is formed to fit the sectional. surface over which it extends.

The ordinary tire is constructed as shown in Fig. 2 where the layer 10 is a. mixtureof fabric and rubber, and in the application of my invention it is preferable to separate said layer, forming the layers 11 and 15 sok as in Fig. 1, and insert therein the afore .`t'\veen said layers 1l and 15, forming a mold,

may be Hlled with rubber. cast therein and vulcanized, thereby retaining said armored shown in Fig. 1.

ring and solidifyinoV the entire structure of the tire. In this tform it is referable to hinge a bent plate'l, to the astlinks 17 and 18 in order to give the rubber at that place a better hold on the rin For this reason the holes 19 are provi ed in plate 16 to allow the rubber to pass through, which is also the objectof providing the raised punched projections 2O on the links.

Where it is desired to adapt this improvement t0 a tire that is already being used, the aforesaid armored ring may be cast around with a layer of vulcanized rubber as shown in Fig. 3 to constitute an independent rubber ring withY said armored ring contained within. Thisrubber ring is then placed in thetire and disposed between the external .ring 21 and the vpneumatic ring 22 so that this arrangement makes such tire serve the same purpose as the special tire If some object on the road, such as a lump of glass or sharp stone, should be struck by the ordinary tires. the object would cause said tires to be penetrated and punctured. However, in an automobile equipped with my improved tires, thissame obstacle 'if encountered would pass through the outer ring 21 but would strike the interposed metallic armored ring which would prevent the pneumatic ring 22 from being reached, and thereby preventing'I the puncturing of the tire.

It will be evident from the structure ot the armored tire that since it is composed ot' a plurality of link-plates, comparatively small, and hinged sidewise to constitute a` series, and since each series 1s jolned't-o the next to move freely, it would result in Ina-karmored ring would not in any wayattect the natural resilient action of the material into which it is built.

It must be understood that my invention is not to be limited to the specilic form of construction and arrangement as shown and described here, but that variations may be `made in practice Without however depart ing from the spirit and principles of `my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claims--V In an armored-wheel tire, a body portion and a layer of metal within said body portion consisting of a plurality of links each formed with a laterally extending curved member arranged to engage a similar curved member carried by an adjoining link and providing means for hinging the links in transverse series, each link having a slot in one end, a link engaging tongue projecting from the edge of the slot, and a tongue projecting from the opposite end of' the link, arranged to pass through the slot of an adjacent link and overlap a portion of the body thereof, providing meansl for hinging thelinks at their end portions. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH PHILLIP SCI-IMAND. litnessesz B. ROMAN, HUGO Mock. 

